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“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”

Thinking World Long Age Social Levels Awareness Depends Machines Institutions Metaphor Despite Faster Social Systems Disharmony

Author:Betty Sue Flowers

“There's always a faster gun.”

Gun Faster

Author:Dennis Overbye

“I'd like to be a 5-10, 205-pound running back. I think it's natural for big guys to want to be a little faster.”

Thinking Want Littles Bigs Running Guy Natural Faster Pounds Big Guys Running Back

Author:Antonio Gates

“My life has always been rapid and crazy. It has just gotten a little faster.”

Littles Crazy Faster Rapids

Author:Brandon Jacobs

“The faster you work, the better off you're going to be.”

Faster Better Off

Author:Mark Buehrle

“Work faster, smarter and harder”

Harder Faster Smarter

Book:It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

Source: It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your Success is Your Own Damn Fault

“Humans have a habit of running faster when they have lost their way.”

Way Humans Running Lost Habit Faster

Author:Rollo May

“Our coherent extrapolated volition is our wish if we knew more, thought faster, were more the people we wished we were, had grown up farther together; where the extrapolation converges rather than diverges, where our wishes cohere rather than interfere; extrapolated as we wish that extrapolated, interpreted as we wish that interpreted.”

People Ifs Together Wish Faster Interfere Volition

Author:Eliezer Yudkowsky

“If any of those times you rushed around madly - trying to get somewhere faster - had ever made any real difference in the quality of your life... don't you think you'd be able to slow down by now?”

Ifs Thinking Trying Made Real Able Differences Quality Faster Slow Down

Author:Guy Finley

“Life is sometimes like a cat, the more you chase it the faster it runs.”

Sometimes Running Life Is Cat Faster

Author:Ken Wahl

“Make a faster machine and people will flock to inefficient software.”

People Machines Faster Software Flocks

Author:John C. Dvorak

“My friend is an idiot. He smokes three packs of cigarettes a day. He won't quit, either. His big excuse is, "Why should I quit smoking? Anything could kill me. I could be walking down the street one day and i could be hit by a bus." Maybe if you quit smoking you could cross the street a hell of a lot faster.”

Ifs Should Bigs Three Hell Streets Walking One Day My Friends Crosses Excuse Quitting Smoke Faster Idiot Smoking Bus Cigarette Should I Packs Kill Me I Quit Quit Smoking

Author:Gregg Rogell

“The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before.”

Facts Economic Rate Deeper Debt Recovery Faster Lasting Economic Recovery

Book:Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

Source: Actor, Ideologue, Politician: The Public Speeches of Ronald Reagan

“Some people are faster than others; I'm just figuring it out later, that's all. I'm getting smart too late and old too soon.”

People Late Smart Faster Too Late Figuring It

Author:Mike Tyson

“Every movie is a commitment of a year or a year and a half. Commercials are much faster than that because they're much more contained. You can get in and out really fast, and you do a piece of work the you see the end result very quickly.”

Years Ends Results Half Pieces Commitment Faster End Results

Author:Paul W. S. Anderson

“The machinery of filmmaking is really slow and ponderous and I don't know how you're going to make it any faster with any of the systems, whether it's Red, Sony, or whatever.”

Knows Know How Red Faster Filmmaking Machinery Sony

Author:Michael Seresin

“'New' movies are almost always hipper, faster, they mix genres aggressively, they smother their genre origins in new form, there are fewer of them, and they tend to cost a lot more money because you usually make more money on the megahit than you do on the steady progression of break-eveners. Except for the horror movie.”

Form Break Horror Cost Faster Genre Steady Fewer More Money Progression

Author:Stephen Hunter

“If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.”

People Ifs Want Asks Balls Innovation Crowds Faster Mainstream Cheaper Testosterone

Author:Jean-Louis Gassee

“Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.”

Men Running Development Machines Faster Application Browsers

Author:Bill Gates

“Nothing gets you behind faster than trying to keep up with people who are already there.”

People Trying Behinds Faster

Author:Washington Allston

“You don’t get off easy, you just get to finish faster!”

Easy Faster

Author:Tony Horton

“There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning.”

Trying Universe Winning Race Mankind Fool Machines Bigger Faster Foolproof Bigger Better

Author:Albert Einstein

“I have set a standard, and I'm going to stick to the standard. I may have been able to grow faster and maybe my business could have been bigger, but because I really feel very serious about my subject, I really want to be hands-on.”

Want Feels May Has Beens Hands Able Grows Subjects Serious Standards Bigger Sticks Faster Could Have Been

Author:Martha Stewart

“I used to be so intensely preoccupied by unhappiness... now there are times where you might get down, but you can move on much faster now.”

Might Moving Used Used To Be Faster Unhappiness

Author:Kristin Scott Thomas

“Some if it may seem hokey to some people, but if you traveled where I've traveled, done what I've done and seen the results that I've been getting, then you understand where I'm coming from. Playing in a football game is like being in 30-40 car accidents. You can find yourself in awkward positions. That stuff takes its toll. But if you take advantage of health care, balance your body back out, put it back where its supposed to be, you function better, and you recover faster.”

“Sometimes you need to ease off in order to go faster”

Needs Sometimes Order Faster Ease

Author:Jackie Stewart

“It's more important than ever to define yourself in terms of what you stand for rather than what you make, because what you make is going to become outmoded faster than it has at any time in the past. ...hang on to the idea of who you are as a company, and focus not on what you do, but on what you could do. By being really clear about what you stand for and why you exist, you can see what you could do with a much more open mind. You enhance your ability to adapt to change.”

Mind Important Ideas Past Term Ability Company Clear Focus Who You Are Faster Being Real Open Mind Define Yourself Ability To Adapt

Author:James C. Collins

“One day I was in an airport rushing to catch a plane. I was sweating and puffing when I looked to my right and saw a man walking half as fast as I was, but going faster. He was walking on a moving sidewalk. When we walk in the Spirit, eh comes underneath us and bears us along. We're still walking, but we walk dependent on him.”

Men Stills Moving Spirit Walks Half Saws Bears Walking One Day Faster Planes Dependent Airports Rushing Sidewalk Sweating

Author:Tony Evans

“Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster.”

People Ifs Together Trouble Let Me Faster Therapists Skip Psycho

Author:David Edelstein

“Negativity spreads faster than any Justin Bieber song.”

Song Spread Faster Negativity Justin

Author:Vanilla Ice

“Obama has paid and will continue to pay dearly for betting on his stimulus package. Because of it, the Bush recession is becoming the Obama recession much faster than it would have had he adopted a more gradual approach to solving economic problems. By jumping in immediately, as he did, in order to increase government spending and pass eight years of Democratic dreams in one day, he made the public expect a solution.”

“If we'd had government on [today's] scale in the 1840s, the stagecoaches would have hired lobbyists to get a bill passed that railroads could not travel faster than a horse because it would be an unfair competitive advantage.”

Ifs Government Would Be Today Advantage Horse Bills Scales Faster Unfair Railroads Competitive Advantage Lobbyists Stagecoaches

Author:Newt Gingrich

“We get these questions a lot from the enterprising young. It's a very intelligent question: You look at some old guy who's rich and you ask, 'How can I become like you, except faster?'”

Looks Young Guy Asks Rich Like You Intelligent Faster Slugs Old Guys Enterprising

Author:Charlie Munger

“I like to shoot a lot of choices. I like a lot of stuff - and so I push to go faster, to shrink the time between the takes so that the takes are what you're spending all your time on.”

Choices Stuff Spending Faster Shrinks

Author:Jay Roach

“As actors, we're a little faster than other people, with breaking down the walls.”

People Littles Actors Wall Faster Breaking Down

Author:Paula Malcomson

“A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe.”

Believe Faster Arteries

Book:The Hemingway Collection

Source: The Hemingway Collection

“You can tell a book is real when your heart beats faster. Real books make you sweat. Cry, if no one is looking. Real books help you make sense of your crazy life. Real books tell it true, don't hold back and make you stronger. But most of all, real books give you hope. Because it's not always going to be like this and books-the good ones, the ones-show you how to make it better. Now.”

Ifs Giving Heart Book Real Helping Shows Crazy Cry Beats Stronger Faster Make Sense Sweat Heart Beat Makes You Stronger Better Now Real Books Your Crazy Crazy Life

Author:Laurie Halse Anderson

“Our great tendency in this age is to increase our speed, to run faster, even in the Christian life. In the process our walk with God stays shallow, and our tank runs low on fumes. Intimacy offers a full tank of fuel that can only be found by pulling up closer to God, which requires taking necessary time and going to the effort to make that happen.”

Source: So, You Want To Be Like Christ?: Eight Essentials to Get You There

“Welfare corrupts the lower class much faster than the middle class.”

Class Middle Faster Welfare Middle Class Lower Class

Author:James Cook

“We suffer from the illusion that the faster we run, the more likely we are to grasp happiness. The truth is that the velocity necessary for success rarely exceeds the rate of reflection.”

Running Suffering Truth Is Illusion Reflection Rate Faster Exceed Velocity

Author:Sam Keen

“If I had found out anything, it was that they could print it faster than I could study it.”

Ifs Found Study Faster Print

Book:Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Source: Have Space Suit, Will Travel

“Something that's unsustainable, like a dysfunctional relationship, can go on longer than you expect, and then end faster and messier than you think.”

Thinking Ends Goes On Faster Dysfunctional Relationship

Author:Peter R. Orszag

“We cannot evolve faster than our language. The edge of being is the edge of meaning, and somehow we have to push the edge of meaning. We have to extend it.”

Language Edges Faster Evolve

Author:Terence McKenna

“The culture cannot evolve faster than the language. The language is the flashlight that shows the path.”

Shows Culture Language Path Faster Evolve Flashlights

Author:Terence McKenna

“The whole experience has really stayed with me. Dunsfold pops into my head at the strangest times, and I run the track through in my head. 'I can go faster there and there...'”

I Can Whole Running Track Pops Faster

Author:Cameron Diaz

“I did a smaller gig with an acoustic guitar and a drum machine. In one song, something wrong happened with the drum machine. I tried to cover up the mistake by playing faster and improvising a new song but it became crazy, and I had to admit it was all a mess.”

Song Mistake Happened Crazy Machines Guitar Mess Faster Gigs Acoustics Cover Ups Improvising New Songs Acoustic Guitar

Author:Violante Placido

“The vital difference between dreamers and achievers boils down to some very basic, simple habits. People with clear, 'written-out' goals who consistently honor their defined priorities tend to get results faster than others, and enjoy a greater level of happiness and long-term success in all areas of life.”

Source: Push (Enhanced Edition): 30 Days to Turbocharged Habits, a Bangin' Body, and the Life You Deserve!

“They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes.”

Littles Whole Moments Life Is Universe Our Lives Faster Fear Of Death

Book:Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

Source: Jnana Yoga: The Yoga of Knowledge

“One way to think about what psychedelics are is as catalysts for language development. They literally force the evolution of language. You cannot evolve faster than your language because the language defines the culture of meaning. So if there's a way to accelerate the evolution of language then this is real consciousness expansion and it's a permanent thing. The great legacies of the 60's are in attitudes and language. It boils down to doing your own thing, feeling the vibe, ego-trip, blowing your mind.”

“Psychedelics can carry you farther and faster than most people care to go. Once you get to psychedelics, it's no longer a matter of seeking the answer, you have found the answer. Now the issue changes dramatically, you must face the answer.”

People Matter Care Faces Found Answers Issues Seeking Faster

Author:Terence McKenna

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